I finally have access to a VT chip. This means that I can exploit, (i.e. use), many virtulisation technologies out there. Got a few choices;
- Xen in paravitualised mode. Sounds complicated
- KVM + Qemu. I've used Qemu before and it does work but seemed much slower than native to me.

Now I remember having a convo with Jebba about this. !ping ;-) He said go for KVm as it is built into the kernel. Hey I may even run doze within Linux.

I'm glad to hear that people have been able to run a virtual solution under BLAG. I've used virtualbox on Ubuntu and have tried vmware on BLAG, but would definitely prefer a non-proprietary solution like KVM. Question: are there kernel tweaks provided to get KVM working under BLAG, or could I use a generic kernel (e.g. 2.6.22.5-76.fc7)?

KVM requires VT support on your processor, unfortunately. I'd suggest you stick to virtualbox (which is mostly GPL'd, btw) if you don't have a processor that supports the Intel VT/AMD Pacifica instructions. You could try qemu (which kvm is based off of) too, but it's probably slower than virtualbox.

If you have a recent CPU that supports VT, kvm is definitely the way to go. I haven't checked the latest fc7 kernels but if kvm isn't there, it should be there "real soon now". What i've been doing is just grabbing the latest kvm, `make ; make installing` it which works just fine. kvm totally rocks.

If you have a recent CPU that supports VT, kvm is definitely the way to go. I haven't checked the latest fc7 kernels but if kvm isn't there, it should be there "real soon now". What i've been doing is just grabbing the latest kvm, `make ; make installing` it which works just fine. kvm totally rocks.

Sadly, I'm pretty sure that neither my laptop nor desktop will support VT. The former is a Dell Inspiron B130 with an Intel Celeron M chip, and the latter an IBM ThinkCentre with an Intel Pentium 4. Maybe this is a sign that I need to purchase new hardware? :^)

Read this a couple of times before you do anything:-
https://wiki.blagblagblag.org/Xen. May be slightly out of date but the overall picture is still the same. Then get another picture from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen. This has some good references, particularly the comparison chart. Remember that you don't have to use Xen as there's always something else that you like or works better for you.

Finally I had a bit of trouble building guest images and came to this method by trial and error:- https://wiki.blagblagblag.org/Xen_images. But that's only if and when you want to use xen and create your own images.

I'm back to searching for a Virtualization (Virtualisation?) solution. I've got VirtualBox running on both 70K and 79K, but a Windoze VM on the former won't recognize Win32 executables, meaning that binaries like "setup.exe" don't work. I've been searching the VM forums about this, but so far I'm clueless.

Which leads me back to Qemu, KVM and Xen. I noticed the BLAG Xen wiki seems to have gone away, or at least the link within this topic. I seem to recall that this was probably my best option if KVM were ruled out.

Speaking of which, could someone refresh my memory as to which flag to look for in /proc/cpuinfo to determine whether or not the VT chip was there? Here's what I've got:

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